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By: Elyssa Creef

Primary Documents Final Project. By: Elyssa Creef. The Beginning .

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By: Elyssa Creef

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  1. Primary Documents Final Project By: Elyssa Creef

  2. The Beginning On July, 1585 a group of 115 men, women, and children landed on Roanoke Island, a 36 square-mile island just inside of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. There landing in the New World was to establish the first English colony. On August 18, 1587 Eleanor Dare gave birth to the first English child born on American land, Virginia Dare.

  3. The Middle The leader of the colony, John White, departed from the colony on ten days after the birth of his granddaughter to get supplies for the colony. He would not return to see the faces of his daughter or granddaughter ever again. Upon him arriving in England, White found himself trapped by the invasion of the Spanish Armada. He would not get the chance to leave to go back the colony until two years later, returning on his granddaughters birthday August 18, 1590.

  4. The End When White landed on Roanoke Island on August 18, 1590 the colony was abounded. The colony was just destroyed remains of what use top be the first English Colony. The only thing that White found of any evidence of what had happed was on one of the palisades. The single word "CROATOAN" was carved into the surface of it. And the letters "CRO" carved into a nearby tree. The 117 pioneers of Roanoke Island had vanished into the wilderness.

  5. Theories of What Happened • After the establishment of Jamestown in Virginia the Indians told the new colonists that there was white people that lived in other tribes. There was other stories about other white people living with Indians throughout the 1600s and 1700s. • John Lawson a historian reported that the Croatoan Indians “tell us, that several of their Ancestors were white People…..the Truth of which is confirmed by gray eyes being found frequently among these Indians, and no others.” • Even today the Lumbee tribe that are thought to be descendants of the Croatoans have claimed that their ancestors where the Roanoke colonist. The claims have been supported by historical researchers that have found that the Indians use English sounding words and names that the Lumbees have been using for several centuries. • Others such as David Beers Quinn a British historian has claimed that the colonists might have went north to the Chesapeake Bay.

  6. Cite Sources Davis , John K. "The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island." American History . 3 Jan. 2009. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. Hause, Eric. "The Lost Colony ." History of Roanoke Island . http://www.roanoke-island.com/history.html, 7 July 2007. Web. 12 Feb. 2012.

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